Peter Watson (born 1943) is an intellectual historian and former journalist, now perhaps best known for his work in the history of ideas.

He was educated at the universities of Durham, London, and Rome. Watson was deputy editor of New Society, and was for four years a member of the Insight team of The Sunday Times. He was New York correspondent of The Times and has written for The Observer, Punch, The Spectator and The New York Times. His journalistic work has included detailed investigation of auction houses and the international market in stolen antiquities, which has resulted in books and TV documentaries.

In June 1997 Watson became a research associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge. He has published thirteen books.^[1][2]

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Watson, Peter (in English) (hardcover). War on the Mind: the Military Uses and Abuses of Psychology. New York: Basic Books. p. 534. ISBN 0-465-09065-6. OCLC 77-75237. 

Wisdom and Strength, the Biography of a Renaissance Masterpiece, Hutchinson, 1990, ISBN 009174637X

Watson, Peter. Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud. New York: Harper Perennial. p. 848. ISBN 0060935642. 

Watson, Peter. Landscape of Lies (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries). New York: Felony & Mayhem Press. p. 240. ISBN 1933397187. 

Watson, Peter. The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century. Harper Perennial. p. 864. ISBN 0060084383. 

Watson, Peter. Nothing is an Accident. Parker Colorado: Outskirts Press. p. 332. ISBN 1432703781. 

Watson, Peter; Cecilia Todeschini. The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities-- From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums. Jackson Tennessee: PublicAffairs/Perseus Books. p. 448. ISBN 1586484389. 

Watson, Peter. Sotheby's: The Inside Story. New York: Random House. p. 324. ISBN 0679414037. 

Watson, Peter. The Caravaggio Conspiracy. New York: Penguin/Doubleday. p. 321. ISBN 0140076352. 

Watson, Peter (November 2001). A Terrible Beauty (also published as Modern Mind: An intellectual history of the 20th century). London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd (imprint of Orion Books). p. 854. ISBN 1842124447. 

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A video featuring Peter Watson at Durham University's Institute of Advanced Study, titled The Enchantment of Ideas, can also be found here: http://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/events/enchantment_of_ideas/

Another video featuring Peter Watson giving a lecture in New York on the theft of antiquites can be found here: http://www.savingantiquities.org/podcasts.php